Google Glass Features and Apps Still in Flux via @IEEESpectrum

In 2010, Babak Parviz was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington when Google recruited him to work on wearable-computing technologies and lead its Google Glass project. Parviz previously wrote for IEEE Spectrum about creating an electronic contact lens with a built-in display (“Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens ”). He provided this update on Google Glass in an interview in mid-December. IEEE Spectrum: What is Google trying to accomplish with Google Glass? Babak Parviz: We wanted to have a device that would do two things that we think would be useful for a lot of people. One is to have a device that would allow for pictorial communications, to allow people to connect to others with images and video. Right now, we don’t have any devices that are specifically engineered to connect to others using images or video. So we wanted to have a device ...